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foliis angustis planiusculis, ligula mediocri membranacea, panicula effusa, ramis capillaribus paucifloris, 
spiculis parvis pallidis 3-5-floris, floribus remotis, palea inferiore obtusa 5-nervi dorso marginibusgue 
pubescente basi nuda v. parce barbata.—P. saxicola, Br. ?, var. effusa, Nees, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 
418. (Gunn, 1009.) (Tas. CLXIV. A.) 
Has. Common in woods and shaded places, Gunn, Oldfield, Archer.—(v. v.) 
DIsTRIB. Victoria. 
A much more flaccid, slender, and weaker straggling plant than any state of P. australis, well distinguished 
from it by the membranous ligula when that organ is present.—Culms slender, sometimes flaccid and climbing, 1-8 
feet long, branched, leafy at the joints. Leaves very narrow, usually flat, green, with rather long, membranous 
ligule. Panicle slender, effuse or contracted ; branches capillary. Spikelets few. Glumes three- to five-flowered, 
acute. Flowers distant. Lower palea glabrous, except at the back and margins, which are pubescent or ciliated, 
sometimes a little bearded at the base.— This cannot be Mr. Brown's P. sazicola, though M. Nees has so con- 
sidered it in Herb. Lindley, the panicle being effuse, not simple and contracted, the ligula is often wanting, the 
leaves are very narrow, and often involute.—PrATE CLXIV. 4. Fig. 1, spikelet; 2, flower; 3, pistil, stamens, and 
squamule :—all magnified. 
4. Poa saxicola (Br. Prodr. 180); culmis cespitosis elongatis basi foliosis, foliis breviusculis latis 
planis scaberulis, ligula lata mediocri membranacea, panicula coarctata subsimplici, spiculis coloratis ellip- 
tico-lanceolatis glabratis turgidis, glumis obtusis margine pubescentibus 3—4-floris, floribus confertis, palea 
inferiore obtusa lata coriacea enervi glaberrima margine pubescente, superiore carinis ciliatis. (Gunn, 1466.) | 
(Tas. CLXIV. 2.) 
Has. Mount Wellington, Brown, Gunn. 
Quite a different-looking Grass from any state of P. australis : I have very few specimens of it.—Culms 
strict, 18 inches high, smooth, leafy at the very base. Leaves 3-4 inches long, broad, linear, flat, scaberulous ; ligula 
broad, membranous. Panicle 11—21 inches long, strict, erect, nearly simple, of few, short, appressed, one- to four- 
flowered branches. Spikelets shining, turgid, purplish. Glumes blunt, glabrous, with downy edges. Flowers closely 
imbricating, broad, and blunt. Lower palea smooth, glabrous, concave, coriaceous, purple, with white, downy 
edges; upper with two ciliated keels. Squamule ovate.—Having so few specimens, some allowance must be made 
for probable variations from this description PLA CLXIV. B. Fig. 1, spikelet; 2, flower; 3, sguamulse, sta- 
men, and pistil :—all magnified. 
Oss. I have what is probably a fifth Tasmanian Poa, from Mr. Gunn (1491), Penquite ; glabrous, with smooth, 
short, plane leaves, and membranous ligula, long, slender culm, and effuse panicle of whorled branches; the spike- 
lets and flowers are nearly smooth, smaller than in P. sazicola, and sparingly woolly or ciliated below. 
Obs. Poa annua, L., has been introduced into Tasmania. (Gunn, 1472, 1483.) 
Gen. XXIII. K(ELERIA, Pers. 
Spicule 2-3-(rarius 3—4-)florz, foribus distichis compressis nitidis scariosis. Glume carinate, mu- 
tice, ineguales. Palea inferior acuta, mutica, v. apice v. infra apicem breviter aristata; superior apice 
bifida. Sguamule 2, inzequales, 2-3-fide.  Caryopsis libera.—Gramina temperatis hemispheriz borealis 
australisque rara; culmis c@spitosis ; foliis planis; paniculis confertis, spieaformibus ; spiculis pedicellatis. 
A small genus of Grasses, scattered over the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, of which one 
mania and New Zealand, and in many other parts of the world it 
European and American species is found in Tas 
is scarcely distinguishable generically from Poa or Festuca.—Culms tufted. Leaves flat or involute. Spikelets pedi- 
d, clustered into a dense cylindrical, whitish, shining spike, small, two- or three-, rarely many-flowered, the upper 
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